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Artefacts
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Inspired by <a href="http://retro.rubenerd.com/museum.htm">Ruben's Museum</a>
here are some of my old sites and other early content lying around on the internet.
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<h2>Websites</h2>
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When I was in university I spent a lot of time building websites when I probably
should have been studying or doing assignments. Thanks to the amazing Internet
Archive some of these live on today.
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Some of the them were hand coded HTML, others were generated with Perl CGI
scripts, and later PHP. A couple of the less embarrassing ones are detailed
below:
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000925200731/http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/">PIC Pages</a> <small>(archived 2000)</small><br>
A site that described itself as <i>a collection of PIC microcontroller related material</i>.
I'm still quite fond of the design today.
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The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000901002320/http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9906768/pic/IDE_to_8255.html">IDE Controller</a>
page that I transcribed into HTML was interesting enough that
Paul J Stoffregen of Teensy fame archived the page, which is still online
today: <a href="https://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html">https://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html</a>.
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010424165857/http://users.netcon.net.au/~wmoore/">Wesley's TI-89 Pages</a> <small>(archived 2001)</small><br>
A site dedicated to the TI-89 and some of the programs I wrote for it.
I still have my TI-89. Head over to the
<a href="calculators.html">calculators page</a> to see it.
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<h2>Images</h2>
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I managed to use a free version of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulead_PhotoImpact">Ulead PhotoImpact</a>
that came on a magazine CD as the basis for an upgrade version of
Ulead PhotoImpact 5. I made all the graphics for my sites in it at
the time. For unknown reasons I still have my copy in its
wonderfully bulky boxed software form (pictured here).
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<a href="images/ulead-photoimpact5.jpg"><img src="images/ulead-photoimpact5-thumb.jpg" alt="Photo of the box for Ulead PhotoImpact 5" width="215" height="240" border="0"></a>
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<li><a href="https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/other-logos.html#:~:text=hclsmith%40glinx.com%3E-,From%20Wesley%20Moore,-%3Cwmoore%40cs.rmit.edu.au">Powered by NetBSD image</a> <small>(c. 2000)</small><br>
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In 2000 I installed my first UNIX system: NetBSD. At the time I wrote:
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The decision to make it into a server was made after
Andrew said I needed a sever for developing Perl and
C programs. I thought this was a good idea so I set
about getting some more hardware and deciding what
free UNIX OS I would install on it. After considering
FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD I decided that I would
install NetBSD. I probably would have chosen FreeBSD
except it's USB support was still very much under
development and I needed it in order to use my USB
modem. NetBSD had built in USB support so I decided
to go with it. Also Andrew and Ben had already setup
FreeBSD servers so I though I might try one of the
others.
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<p>I installed NetBSD on a cobbled together system with a
Cyrix 6x86MX-PR166 (133Mhz) CPU and 24 Mb of RAM.</p>
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I liked NetBSD enough that I designed an image and submitted it
to the NetBSD gallery. It's still
<a href="https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/other-logos.html#:~:text=hclsmith%40glinx.com%3E-,From%20Wesley%20Moore,-%3Cwmoore%40cs.rmit.edu.au">there today</a>.
It seems it first showed up
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010205060900/http://www.netbsd.org:80/gallery/logos.html">on the NetBSD site</a>
in early 2001.
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<img src="images/netbsd_powered.gif" alt="Graphic of the text 'Powered by NetBSD www.netbsd.org' the 't' in Net is elongated horizontally and ends with a demon style arrow" width="119" height="63">
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<h2>Other</h2>
<p>Random other stuff:</p>
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This is the earliest evidence I can find of myself on the internet.
<a href="https://tigcc.ticalc.org/archives/oldmail/calc-ti/1997_November/msg00595.html">A mailing list post</a>
on the calc-ti mailing list in 1997.
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